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12. RUSSIA—AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
APPENDIX III TO THE TREATY OF PEACE BETWEEN RUSSIA
AND THE CENTEAI POWERS.
3 MARCH, 1918.1
SIGNED AT BREST-IITOVSK,
[Text reconstructed from Appendix II to the Treaty of Peace, with differences as
set forth in State Department Weekly Reports, Central Powers, No. 40, 8 April, 1918.]
In regard to the economic relations between Austria-Hungary and
Russia the following is agreed upon
1. The Austro-Hungarian-Russian treaty concerning trade and
shipping of 2/15 February, 1906, is not renewed.
The contracting parties obligate themselves to commence negotiations
regarding conclusion of a new commercial treaty as soon as
possible after the conclusion of a general peace between Austria-
Hungary on the one part, and the European countries at present at
war with her and the United States of America and Japan on the
other part.
2. As the basis of the commercial corelationship up to the term
mentioned, and in any case up to the thirty-first* of December, 1919,
shall be considered the regulations contained' in the present appendix,
which regulations form an integral part of the present peace treaty.
Both contracting parties, are, however, entitled to repudiate these
regulations beginning from the thirtieth of June, 1919, on condition
of giving six months' notice. In case of this right of repudiation
being utilized before the thirty-first of December, 1922, then, for a
term of three years, reckoning from the date of the cessation of the
activity of the stipulations contained in the present appendix, the
principle of the most favored nation shall be established on the
territory of the opposite party, for the subjects, for commercial,
iadus trial and financial companies, including insurance companies,
for the produce of agriculture and industries, and for vessels of both
contracting parties.
The principle of the most favored nation, stipulated in the foregoing
regulations, retains force in the event of changes in customs
relations in one or both of the contracting countries, as well as any
of the separate states constituting part of the same.
3. Furthermore, in the course of this period, Russia will neither
prohibit the export of rough and unworked lumber, nor levy export
duty on the same, in so lar as it is not especially mentioned in number
six of the schedule of export duties; neither shall it prohibit the
export of, or levy export duty on, ores of all kinds, bones, rags,
refuse of aU kinds, and rubber waste.
' Ratifications exchanged at Berlin ,i July (.Neue Frde Presse, 6 July, 1918, morning edition.)
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